QUEEN, SOUTHPORT WHITE GLOBE. 21 



poor keeper. It is a sweet, mild onion of good size for 

 family use, though averaging considerably smaller than the 

 varieties that have been described. Here let me say, that, for 

 family use, except for frying, the common onions of the 

 market are much too large to be economical : the two 

 outer layers of an onion four inches and upwards in diam- 

 eter, though making up about half the bulk, are usually 

 coarse and tough, and slough off when boiled. The 

 sweetest, tenderest, and most economical onions for this 

 purpose of the yellow sort are those that are from two to 

 three inches in diameter. 



THE QUEEN. 



OF THE NEWER SORTS, the " Queen 

 a white English variety grow- 

 ing from two to two and one-half 

 inches in diameter, is doubtless the 

 earliest at present known, — so 

 early that under favorable circum- 

 stances it may grow from seed to 

 a market size about as soon as 

 those raised from Philadelphia sets. 



SOUTHPORT WHITE GLOBE. 



THIS IS a large, globular, white variety, that is about as 

 round, and, when cured in the shade, about as white, 

 as a snow-ball, being the handsomest of all onions. It 

 is a very profitable variety where it can be matured, and is 

 too late to be planted with safety in latitude north of 

 Southern Connecticut. 



